Prayer List for December 20, 2009

Sunday, please pray for Jehanzaib Asher, a Pakistani Christian whose Muslim neighbors tried to convert him to Islam. After he defended Christianity without attacking Islam, Taliban militants beat him, then accused him and his cousin of blasphemy against Mohammad. “According to Compass News Asher’s picture is posted at check-points through-out Pakistan in an attempt to help the Taliban and other Islamists identify and kill him. Asher is now on the run and hiding as they seek to find him and take his life.” (Open Doors, Compass Direct)

Monday, please pray for the Jewish people as anti-Semitism is on the rise in western countries. “Ten middle school students in Naples, Florida, were suspended after taking part in what they called ‘Kick a Jew Day.’ School authorities assured worried parents that they were taking the incident seriously and would institute ‘sensitivity training’ and encourage students not to be bullies. (Jerusalem Prayer Team)

Tuesday, please pray for Pastor Abidan, Pastor Jeffry and other Indonesian pastors who have been receiving bomb threats. Police found an inoperable device at Pastor Abidan’s church. Radical Islamic groups are demanding that the churches be shut down. (Open Doors)

Wednesday, please pray for Chinese Uyghur Pastor Alimjan Yimit. “Chinese authorities have quietly sentenced Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit to 15 years in prison on the apparently contrived charge of ‘providing state secrets to overseas organizations,’ according to China Aid Association (CAA). The charge against the 36-year-old house church leader, held for more than two years at Kashgar Detention Center, was based on innocuous interviews he granted to media outside of China, according to his lawyer, Li Dunyong.” (Open Doors)

Thursday, please pray for Chinese pastors sentenced to re-education camps. “Five Chinese pastors, arrested as they were en route to file a complaint over the demolition of their church building, have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven years. House church leader Yang Rongli was sent to prison for seven years, for ‘illegally occupying farming land’ and ‘disturbing transportation order by gathering masses’. She and four other pastors from the Linfen Church were sentenced on Nov. 25 at the People's Court of Raodu district, Shanxi Province. In a further case the following week, five more church leaders from Linfen Church were each sentenced to two years in re-education through labor camps. They were accused of 'gathering people to disturb the public order', referring to their organization of a prayer rally held the day after their church was demolished. In the attack over 400 military police destroyed 17 church buildings and over 30 believers were seriously wounded.” (Open Doors, Compass Direct)

Friday, please praise God for His unspeakable gift.

Saturday, please praise God that Make Way Partners has received two grants to allow them to start a home for orphaned girls in Sudan. (Make Way Partners)